Re: Automating Soup Packet delivery
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:54:49 -0700
In article <ECVc3I3FlJcb092yn@interactive.net>,
woody@interactive.net (Mark Weinstock) wrote:
>this isn't totally a Yarn question, but I didn't know where else to check.
>I'm on the road quite a bit, and can only dial in to my ISP once a day or
>so. Many of the newsgroups I subscribe to get purged pretty frequently from
>my ISP's news server. What I'd like to do is set up my home machine to dial
>into my ISP, download the news from the various groups to SOUP packets, and
>store them for me to later pick up by dialing into my home machine.
One approach would be to use a telnet client with a good scripting language.
One such is Zoc (http://www.emtec.com), shareware but fairly expensive.